April 24, 1985

Good morning Bill:

VERY GLAD TO HEAR FROM YOU!

With family complications....can appreciate your not writing.

                                                          WITH ME....my concern is health. My brother just returned from the famous Mayo Clinic in Rochester for surgery. The Doctor found me okay....but from here on, there will be a DOCTOR CHECK*UP ONCE A YEAR! If either my wife, or my health were to be badly affected....the goal of publishing these planned books....could quickly fizzle.

                                                     ENCLOSED IS A FAVORABLE RESPONSE  FROM MAINLAND CHINA. This man writing....is with a publishing house. He pursued my question with this information. Was originally referred to him via the US EMBASSY there in China.

NOW * RUSSIA IS THE PROBLEM!

                           Several letters written to specific "POULTRY PEOPLE" in Russia, have been ignored. What bugs me too....is letters we have sent  to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow;...have not been answered.

                                                    PRESIDENT KRISTER ECKLUND of the World Poultry Science Association has promised to help. At a special conference he would be talking to TWO POULTRY PEOPLE....from Russia. Perhaps his personal contact / will help. Lets  hope so.

          WITH SOME COUNTRIES, it is rather obvious they have nothing to offer.

                                                            JUST RECENTLY... sent $36.00 to a publishing firm in FRANCE....to get their leading poultry book.

WILL LOOK FORWARD...to your comments on tools made in Australia. As told you previously, I do not have or raise CHICKENS, but have a number of hobbies.

 

Mr. C.C. Wang
12, Lane No. 4, - Yan Qing Road Shanghai, China

23rd March 1985

Dear Mr. Loyl Stromberg,

I am very glad that you are interesting in the books I recommended in my last letter. I’ll arrange to buy them for you when are issued.

Knowing that a large and significant book, an encyclopaedia - “Poultry of The World” under your compiling and to be published in the future, I wish you will achieve great success. o f course it is my pleasure to offer you any of the useful reference materials of Chinese chicken breeds for comprehensiveness and accuracy.

Frankly speaking, as I know, there are few informations on the three breeds - Cochins Langshans and Brahmas, but, one article, named The past, Present and Future about Selection and Breeding of Langshan (about four thousand words, which might be for your reference on some aspects, had been published in Poultry magazine in 1979. If you are interesting, I’ll manage to duplicate or translate it for you: Besides, from card catalogues, I discover an article, named The History of Chinese Chicken Breeds. If it is valuable, I would like to write to you later.

It is a place name? But, there is no town called this name at Shanghai suburb. May it be denoting chicken weight in catty? Catty is a Kind of Chinese weight unit of which Chinese pronounce very similar to “Chin”.

It is needed further reference to answer your questions. I wish you advise me How and When the Cochin has originated? Who denominated .........